functional improvement

collocation in English

meaningsoffunctionalandimprovement

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functional
adjective
uk
/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən.əl/us
/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən.əl/
designed to be practical and useful rather ...
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improvement
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪmˈpruːv.mənt/us
/ɪmˈpruːv.mənt/
an occasion when something gets better or when you make ...
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(Definition offunctionalandimprovementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The evidence of frequentfunctionalimprovementover time in some residents in long-term care means that the need for aids must be constantly reassessed.
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Intravenous immunoglobulins or cyclophosphamide may result infunctionalimprovement.
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Functionalimprovementwas present in 90% of the cases.
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Thus, the results suggest that to attempt to increasefunctionalimprovementthere is a need to make greater use of psychological interventions or to enhance those currently being used.
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The evolution of intelligence has commonly been viewed as a matter of the progressive expansion andfunctionalimprovementof a "plan" of brain design that is essentially conservative.
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They often bring about significantfunctionalimprovement.
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At the top of patients' agenda is not more structural change butfunctionalimprovementin capacity.
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Long-lasting significantfunctionalimprovementin chronic severe spinal cord injury following scar resection and polyethylene glycol implantation.
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Eaves, as well as the walls, received general painting works for aesthetic andfunctionalimprovement.
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This method allows for more personal variation as one patient might require more pain relief, where another strives towards morefunctionalimprovement.
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Early discharge and home rehabilitation after hip fracture achieves functional improvements: a randomized controlled trial.
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Functional improvements can occur, for instance, when release of elbow flexion permits a patient to control a wheelchair.
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Ziegler found that integrating brain research, attachment theory, and resiliency work within trauma treatment resulted in an unexpected outcome significantfunctionalimprovementfollowing the cessation of treatment.
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Since then, some users have been critical of a perceived lack of active management and functional improvements to the site.
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This program of extensive structural strengthening, functional improvements, and conservation work essentially inserted a new building within the old.
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A local area plan for the area is currently being implemented with the aim of making aesthetic and functional improvements through redesign of road layout, street furniture etc.
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But the fund was not designed to cover the scale of work now required to meet present-day fire and safety regulations and other needed functional improvements.
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